And loop-retaining comb for knitting-ma



. JFN. KENDALL.

TRANSFBRRING AND LOOP RETAINING 00MB IOR KNITTING MACHINES.

No. 103,471. Patented May 24, I870.

JAMES N. KENDALL, OF NASHUA. NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Letters Patent No. 103,471, dated May 24, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN TR ANSIERRING- ANDLOOP-RETAINING COMB FOR :KNITTINQMA- CHINES.

W The Schedule referred .to in these Letters Patent and making-part of the lame.

To all whom 2' t may concern Be itknown that I, JAMES N. KENDALL, of Nashua, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Knitting-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact' descriptiouof the construction and operation of the same, reference being. bad to the annexed drawing ma'kingg part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of I "eference' marked thereon.

Figure'l 'of the drawing is a perspective view of w my invention.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Figure 3 is a. top view. -My invention relates toknitting-m'achines, and consists in the construction of a convenient and useful instrument, whereby any number of stitches that may be required to be thrown 015, to he again brought into use, may be taken at the same time from the needles and held securely, without being twisted or disarran gerl,-

combA and operated by means of a spring, 0, or its 7 equivalent, in such a manner that the hooks can be raised out of the slots when necessary to'admit the stitches under their ends.

The operation is as follows: 7

i The comb is placed on the needles of the machine from which the stitches are tohe taken, as seen in fig. 1. The needles are then thrust forward, carrying the comb until the stitches pass over the latches and back into the stems thereof; then the needles are drawn back with the comb, when the stitches will be passed over the heads of the needles and onto the fingers of the comb; At the same time the retaininghooks are raised to allow the stitches to pass under The stitches arethus securedto the comb, which may now be taken from the needles until it is necessary to return'the stitches thereto.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-' .The combination of the comb A, having slotted teeth a-, with the retaining-hooks b, when constructed and arranged to operate substantially as 'and for the purpose specified.

- In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES N. KENDALL.

Witnesses:

A. H. SAUNDERS, M. E. BAnNns. 

